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Take advantage of Elastic's generative AI capabilities to address search, observability, and security challenges across your organization in real time, at scale.
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Search
Build production-ready AI search experiences that deliver relevant, accurate results with the most downloaded vector database and platform for RAG.
Observability
Prevent outages with proactive issue detection. Unify logs, traces, metrics, profiling, synthetics, and RUM to improve service availability and performance.
Security
Address threats at scale with security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, cloud security, and more. Quickly correlate information and automate key triage steps with AI.
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Elastic Cloud trial FAQ
Explore some of the most frequently asked questions about our Elastic Cloud trial experience. For more FAQ about Elastic in general, check out our FAQ page.
Elastic Cloud is a fully managed cloud offering with AI-driven service solutions for search, observability, and security use cases. It is a multi-cloud, multi-region offering, available across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Elastic Cloud provides access to the most current version of all three solutions.
Choosing between serverless, hosted, or on-prem depends on your specific needs and use cases:
- Serverless: Ideal for those who want to offload infrastructure management and scale flexibly based on demand
- Hosted: Best for users seeking full control over the environment while utilizing managed services for maintenance and updates
- On-prem: Suitable for enterprises requiring complete customization and control over their deployment, often preferred by organizations with in-house DevOps capabilities
Elastic Cloud is designed to be cloud-agnostic and integrates seamlessly with major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. If you are already with a cloud provider, you can deploy Elastic Cloud within your preferred environment to leverage existing resources and integrations.
No, a credit card is not required to sign up for the initial Elastic Cloud trial. You can start the trial by registering with your contact details. However, a credit card or other payment methods will be needed if you wish to continue using the service after the trial period ends.
Elastic provides comprehensive documentation to help you get started with Elastic Cloud. You can find cloud-specific guides, tutorials, and reference materials on the getting started page.
The Elastic Cloud trial includes access to a full suite of features, enabling you to explore and deploy Elastic's Search, Observability, and Security solutions. The trial allows you to test various functionalities to understand how they can benefit your specific use cases. If you continue using Elastic Cloud after your trial ends, you'll pay only for what you use, allowing you to scale resources as needed without long-term commitments.
While the Elastic Cloud trial provides extensive access to features, there are some resource limitations. Additionally, signing up through Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud does not come with a free trial. For full terms and conditions, refer to the trial documentation.